Sunday, 14 January 2024

Bath Gone, Not to be Found, & Insufficiently Addressed

Here are a series of Bath covers that failed to get delivered.  The first two, from 1884, have manuscript "Gone no address" on the front and 1-22 postman initials on the reverse. ["Postman" rather than "Letter Carrier" because it's after the introduction of a parcels service in 1883]

The next cover from 1896 has a framed "Not to be found / 53" cachet, ....

... while the invoice below from 1900 has a manuscript "not Twerton, Bath" - Tiverton having been misread as Twerton.
The final cover was delivered in 1935, but not by airmail, and has a large framed cachet to say that it was insufficiently addressed for transmission by air mail, but presumably OK to go by surface mail.


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